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The Miami Dolphins took to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday and not only did their offense have a big day running the football, quarterback Ryan Tannehill complemented it it by completing 24 of his 32 pass attempts in the game for 252 yards. While Tannehill only attempted 3 deep passes…

While Cameron Heyward’s three sacks on the day will necessarily draw the headlines, the truth is that both he and Stephon Tuitt at the defensive end spots were pretty consistently wreaking havoc for the Pittsburgh Steelers’ defense against the Chiefs. On just the fourth play of the game, Heyward notched…

While the box score is relatively informative it doesn’t always tell the whole story. Here are the plays and circumstances not covered in any box score that had a critical role in the outcome of the Pittsburgh Steelers week 4 win over the Kansas City Chiefs. On the Steelers first…

Coming off the worst defeat of the Mike Tomlin-era, a 34-3 blowout at the hands of the Philadelphia Eagles, the Pittsburgh Steelers hosted the Kansas City Chiefs at Heinz Field on Sunday night in nationally-televised match-up and came within eight seconds of the biggest win of the Tomlin-era. The Steelers…

The Pittsburgh Steelers easily took care of the Kansas City Chiefs Sunday night at Heinz Field and below are my choices for the top ten game-defining plays. 10 – Kansas City was moving the ball on their first drive until on 2nd and 10 Steelers defensive end Cameron Heyward bull-rushed…

The Pittsburgh Steelers had a great bounce-back game Sunday night as they totally dominated the Kansas City Chiefs on both sides of the football on their way to registering a 43-14 home win. Pro Football Focus has now released some of their individual player grades from the Sunday game and…

After giving up a ton of yards after the catch in their previous two games, the Pittsburgh Steelers defense got it right when it came to that portion of their play in their big Sunday night win over the Kansas City Chiefs at Heinz Field. On the 30 passes that…

What is the perfect antidote to get over a blowout loss hangover? Why, a blowout victory in response, of course, and that is precisely what Dr. Ben Roethlisberger prescribed for the Pittsburgh Steelers last night, whose team beat the Chiefs nearly as badly as the Eagles beat them the week…

Seven gut reactions from the Pittsburgh Steelers week 4 win against the Kansas City Chiefs: 1 – Tonight seemed like the polar opposite of Week 3 against the Philadelphia Eagles as the Steelers were able to seize the momentum and keep it for all four quarters. Ben Roethlisberger hit nine…

The Pittsburgh Steelers will play the Kansas City Chiefs Sunday night at Heinz Field on and it will be their second home game of the 2016 regular season. Below are seven things that I believe the team will need to do in order to come away with their third win…

When the Pittsburgh Steelers take the field tomorrow two branches of one of the biggest coaching tree’s in the modern NFL will clash. Andy Reid, the Kansas City Chiefs head coach, and Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin can both trace their coaching lineage to Mike Holmgren. I hope the diagram…

Are you ready for some more small ball? I hope so because that’s exactly what the Kansas City Chiefs offense will be playing Sunday night at Heinz Field against the Pittsburgh Steelers. If you think Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz threw short passes and got rid of the football quickly…

Season 7, Episode 22 of The Terrible Podcast is now up and in this Friday show, David Todd and I get right to talking about the Pittsburgh Steelers injury report from Thursday and how the team will have tough choices when it comes to setting their pre-game inactive list Sunday night. Will the Steelers have…

This year, Josh Carney and I will break down the opposing team’s offense in our weekly scouting report. Like last year, I will be looking at the opposing team in a more broad, scheme-approach. Josh will have a closer eye on the individual players. Alex’s Scheme Report Chiefs’ Run Game…

I don’t need to tell any of you how disappointing the pass rush of the Pittsburgh Steelers defense has been so far through the team’s first three games and I certainly don’t have to tell defensive coordinator Keith Butler that, either. During his weekly segment on Steelers Nation Radio, Butler…